The Fun They Had

What are the teaching of Tommy and margie when you compare that with your teaching? who are in a better position? why

What are thedifference in the teaching of Tommy and margie when you compare that with your teaching? who are in a better position ?why?

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"The Fun They Had" centers on an eleven-year-old girl's experience of her education. Throughout the text, different pedagogical approaches surface: centuries ago, for example, children learned together in schoolhouses staffed by human teachers. In contrast, Margie's education is solitary. Her mother decides the schedule, but the lessons are given by a mechanical teacher—a robot whose screen flashes with lessons, with a slot for entering homework and tests. Margie and the robot undertake her education every weekday, alone except for each other in a room in Margie's home. Thus it seems that Margie dislikes school, not because of the actual act of learning, but because of the increasing mechanization of her education. As a result of this solitary learning, she craves more social interaction. Margie tries to push off school to continue spending time with Tommy, until her mother puts her foot down. When Tommy heads back to his own house, Margie asks pleadingly if she can continue spending time with him after school. Margie's dislike of her education, and her longing for low-tech schools of the past, suggest a critique of the pursuit of scientific advancement without consideration of social and communal life. Technology has made Margie's life lonelier, not better.

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